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Bug in Substring under netcf

Sat, August 13, 2005, 08:10 AM under MobileAndEmbedded 

String s1 = "Some string";
this.Text = s1.Substring(1, s1.Length)
When you run the code under the full framework, you can see the ArgumentOutOfRangeException: "Index and length must refer to a location within the string. Parameter name: length".

When you run it under the .net compact framework v1.0 you see nothing. It is too tolerant (bug).

This is now fixed in netcf v2.0 so if you try the same code you'll get a ArgumentOutOfRangeException: "Specified argument was out of the range of valid values."

If your app took advantage of the bug it will now crash. It is for reasons like this you'd want to run your app in compatibility mode under netcf 2.0 (unless you can recompile your code under CF v2.0, of course).

However, in this case, that won't help you... until we get some msft comments, I guess it is probably a bug in the compatibility mode or maybe compatibility is only there for by-design changes and does not extend to bug fixes...
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